Hallantide
English
Alternative forms
- Allantide, Hallontide, Hollandtide, Hollantide
Noun
Hallantide (uncountable)
- (obsolete, dialectal, West Country, Ireland, Isle of Man, Lincoln, Northampton, Worcester, Shropshire, Gloucester, Hertford, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, Somerset, Cornwall) All Saints' Day
- c. 17y, Browne, William, “An Epistle occasioned by the most intolerable Jangling of the Papists' Bells on All Saints' Night”, in The Poems of William Browne of Tavistock, volume 2, published 1894, page 229:
- Palmes and my friend, this night of Hallantide / Left all alone, and no way occupied
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Related terms
- Hallan apple
- Hallan cake
- Hallan day
- Hallan night
References
- James Orchard Halliwell (1846), “HALLANTIDE”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes, volume I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], OCLC 1008510154, page 430, column 1.
- Wright, Joseph (1902) The English Dialect Dictionary, volume 3, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 33
- Observations on Some of The Dialects in The West of England – Somerset Particularly
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